Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Git is an elegantly designed system of many small programs, linked by the shared repository data structure.

Maven plugins, by contrast, are not designed to be composed and the APIs are underdocumented. With Maven, plugins fit into the common framework of the engine, which strikes me as maybe a more difficult proposition than many small programs working on a common data structure.

Of the anarchic situation with Ruby package management (Gems, Bundler, and RVM) Sierra says, “layers of indirection make debugging harder,” and “The speed of development comes with its own cost.”